Turkey : Call from the representative of 2 million tradesmen palandöken: Groceries and markets should be open

Turkey Tradesmen and Artisans Confederation (TESK) President Bendevi Palandöken, weekends applied curfew as a result of the street, due to the closure of the grocery store and small grocery stores, trades that the victim, said that explode the waste in the home.

In his statement to Palandöken SÖZCÜ, “Citizens buy the food items they plan to use at the weekend in large quantities and stock them at home. This causes some of the products to deteriorate and become stale and to be thrown away.

In order to avoid wasting national resources, the grocery stores and small markets between the streets should be open during certain times, even when there is a curfew. ”

TO CONTACT ALBAYRAK

Explaining that they will talk to the Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak in this week and convey their demands, Palandöken said that they talk to the Finance, Labor and Trade Ministers every week through teleconferences and share their problems.

Palandöken, ‘’We will convey all the problems we have received from our shopkeepers and our solution suggestions to the Minister. We will demand that the grocery stores and markets remain open for a certain period of time, the exemption of tradesmen over 65 years old, and the masters, apprentices and journeymen working with the tradesmen will be paid a minimum amount of money. ”

Stating that the openness of the grocery stores will not harm the epidemic, Palandöken said:

Bendevi Palandoken

LET BREAD AND NEWSPAPER

* We will fight the epidemic, of course, but life continues. People should be able to buy morning milk, bread, newspaper and urgent needs from the grocery store and continue their life at home.

* If at least 4-5 hours of grocery stores are open on the days of the ban, nobody needs to stock up. As in the markets, there is no queue or queue. People are comfortable, and our tradesmen do not expect anything from the state, as they will earn three or five cents.

Tradesmen over 65 must work

President Palandöken also asked for exemptions from the curfew imposed on citizens over 65 years of age. Palandöken, who stated that the craftsmen and apprentices he worked with because he could not open his shop because he could not open his shop, Palandöken, who was a small part of the shopkeepers, auto mechanic, restaurant, tea house operator, was allowed to work in his own shop by following the sanitary rules at the highest level. asked to be given.